For the first couple of days after Iran was decimated by joint US-Israel airstrikes the Iranian response appeared to more or less fall along the lines most people expected. US bases and assets were targeted in response strikes and Israel was getting missiles lobbed at it as well. Eventually we did see Hezbollah start attempting to strike Israel and ironically enough Cyprus but those strikes have been largely ineffective and if anything has blown up in Iran's face.
The attacks on Cyprus have resulted in Europe getting involved heavily in the defense of the Eastern Mediterranean. At the start of the conflict the UK was not even allowing the US to use bases under its control (Diego Garcia) so attacks on it were well not the best move. We know the idea was to spread the conflict out as quickly as possible to force the US and Israel to back down due to pressure from other countries but again the opposite is happening.
At one point, either yesterday or the day before, the UAE had been targeted by more Iranian missiles and drones than Israel was. The UAE did not even attack but they were have to use a lot of resources to protect itself. We then also saw the conflict rapidly spilling out of US targets and Israel and into civilian and oil infrastructure attacks or attempted attacks. For instance the UAE had a 5 star hotel hit by a drone and in Saudi Arabia Iran began to up its attacks on oil infrastructure.
As a result of these increasingly erratic attacks by Iran yesterday we saw multiple Gulf Countries issue statements saying they reserved the right to strike Iran back. A sharp and stunning rebuke of what Iran was doing. Rumors even began to circulate that Qatar and the UAE were looking at starting preemptive strikes against Iranian missile sites including production facilities for missiles and drones. This move and these rumors were so incredibly out of left field that it showed that the region was RAPIDLY getting sick of Iran's actions and the decades of them sowing chaos in the Middle East had done much more damage than they anticipated.
The cherry on top though happened this morning (at least in east coast time) when Türkiye shot down an Iranian ballistic missile heading towards it. This wasn't a drone, it wasn't artillery, it was a ballistic missile. That is serious firepower and it was fired at a country that so far had stayed on the sidelines and not participated in any sort of defense or action against Iran or in support of the US or Israel. As Iran continues to lash out and strike more and more countries AND civilian locations they have done nothing but isolate themselves from neighboring countries and unite people who were once rivals.
In just the last few minutes alone during the Pentagon briefing this morning it was announced:
- Qatar had shot down two Iranian bombers that were inbound to attack Qatar.
- The leader of the plot that the Biden Admin had uncovered to assassinate President Trump in 2024 has been killed in the strikes.
- A U.S. submarine using a Mk. 48 torpedo sank the IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka. This is the first time since WWII that a US submarine used a torpedo to sink an enemy ship in combat.
- An Israeli F-35I "Adir" shot down an Iranian Air Force YAK-130 fighter jet over Tehran
Likely the most important thing though because people have been speculating about the US and regional Allies interceptor number is
Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that Iran’s ballistic missile strikes are down 86 percent from the first day of fighting, “with a 23 percent decrease just in the last 24 hours.” Iran’s one-way attack drone strikes are down 73 percent, he said.
Oh and since I almost forgot to mention it the IRGC earlier today announced they had launched missile attacks on three Kurdish bases in Iraq that were used by Iranian Kurdish militant groups who opposed Tehran. One group the PAK has confirmed an attack on a base. This is another significant move because a couple of days ago rumors came out that the CIA was either looking to or had armed Iranian Kurds so that they could mount an uprising against the Regime while it was beaten down. A move like this would naturally draw Tehran's attention due to the Kurds showing time and time again how capable of a a force they are and helping free up all of the other protesters in the major cities across Iran to revolt.
The moral of this story is Iran itself has managed to unite rival Middle Eastern countries in a way that I do not think even the US could have done. Greek and Turkish forces are unofficially working together to protect Cyprus now. After a very public split Saudi Arabia and the UAE are back working together. Iran is doing work that would have taken decades in just days now.
More fedslop nonsense. Hopefully more and more people will see through this kind of government propaganda.
Remember - Truth is the first casualty of war.
For real news check out some alternative sources:
https://www.aljazeera.com/
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom youtube channel - he's a pro-freedom guy with a lot of ex military/intelligence contacts that he interviews.
Scott Ritter: How's the War Going, Mr. President
Prof. John Mearsheimer : Is Trump’s War Beyond Control?
Feel free to post some more alternative sources here.
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Escalation tends to unite opponents faster than expected.
Exactly... grave miscalculation on Iran's part and I have an underlying feeling that the sheer number of top military and governmental leaders is what lead to this.
When did USA last win any war?
Yeah, leadership losses can really change decision-making dynamics. When command structures get disrupted, reactions tend to become more aggressive or less coordinated.
I read that Iranian military units were given standing orders to make their own decisions to retaliate, should the chain of command become compromised.
Did you hear that, too, @Cje95? If so, that could explain the erratic and strategically self-defeating actions.
But it might also make peace harder to obtain, if the regime has lost control of its military.
There are no real wars against the USA, no country could match this amount of profligacy on destruction material.
This is the worst consequence of the fiat standard.
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Yes but look at Afghanistan- a small undeveloped 3rd world nation that USA thought it could invade and control.
The more you brutalise and try to enslave some people the more reactionary and defensive they become.
People criticise the reactionary nature of Iran but do not understand or acknowledge the history of British then US subjugation of Iran in the interests of US and British oil companies.
This is the funniest part about all this, one fake analyst for a dead MSM newspaper suggested it, and muppets bought it hook line and sinker as if the .mil planners don't know their numbers and somehow overlooked this in decades of war-gaming scenarios
China has won the trade war.
So poor loser Trump has resorted to war crimes and military might.
But USA has nowhere near sufficient supply of refined rear earths to fight any large scale war of any duration without running out of crucial war materiels.
'When the U.S. military’s top general laid out the risks to President Trump of launching a major and extended attack on Iran, one of the issues he flagged was America’s stockpile of munitions.
Now that is being put to the test, as the U.S. races to destroy Iran’s missile and drone force before it runs out of interceptors to fend off Tehran’s retaliation, current and former officials and analysts say.
The precise size of the U.S. stock of air-defense interceptors—what the Pentagon calls magazine depth—is classified. But repeated conflicts with Iran and its proxies in the Middle East have been eating into the supply of air defenses in the region.
Since Saturday morning Tehran time, the U.S. and its allies in the region have pounded an array of leadership and military targets in the country, including Iran’s missile launchers, drones and airfields. One reason the U.S. and Israel struck first, a senior official said Saturday, was to blunt Iran’s ability to retaliate with its missiles and drones.
It isn’t yet clear how long the strikes will need to last. “The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!” Trump posted on social media on Saturday.
Iran’s retaliation on Saturday has been more ragged than in the 12-day war when it fired more than 500 missiles and many more attack drones. Israel’s announcement that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in an airstrike could also hasten an end to the conflict, though it is far from clear who might succeed him.
Still, U.S. Central Command said Saturday that its force has already mounted a largely successful defense against hundreds of Iranian missile and drone attacks, though some have managed to hit their targets, especially in Arab Gulf states that are close to Iran. The conflict isn’t over, and there are still more U.S., Israeli and Iranian strikes to come.
“One of the challenges is you can deplete these really quickly,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center think tank who used to teach at the Air Command and Staff College. “We’re using them faster than we can replace them.” '
WSJ
US military industrial complex is crippled- it cannot make more munitions because it has no supply of rare earths.
We are still in the early stages of the conflict between China and the US and the US has lost the trade war but is responding with war crimes attacking Chinese proxies.
USA is running low on munitions in this last desperate effort to retain its global hegemony over all other nations.
US wealth is based on its ability to bully others and use force to kill them if they do not comply with its petrodollar regime of global dominance.
We are still in the early stages of this conflict.
Trump has thrown out the rule book and so there are no rules of engagement anymore.
Trump could be assassinated just like he had the Iranian leader assassinated.
I'm skeptical about any official narrative.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/middle-east-war-decided-interceptors-missiles suggests another unsubstantiated interpretation of the current situation.
Let's see.
The Ukraine invasion is still going on. That was not what the official narrative predicted.